Analgesia - Nursing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Casting: complications and after care.

30 May 2009 This article continues a short series of articles on how to apply casts. It examines some of the complications experienced by patients and discusses how emergency nurses can improve after-care ... Read more...

The ten commandments of pain assessment and management in preterm neonates.

30 May 2009 Despite advances in pain assessment and management, nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic analgesic therapies continue to be underutilized in managing both acute and procedural pain in preterm neonates. Untreated acute, recurrent, or chronic pain ... Read more...

Pain management in the nursing home.

30 May 2009 This article is about pain management and some of the best practices to address the problem of pain in nursing home patients who have a serious illness and multiple comorbid conditions. Management of the emotional distress that accompanies chronic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Analgesia - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pain control in children--are nurses doing enough? 29 Jun 2009
• Casting: complications and after care. 30 May 2009
• The ten commandments of pain assessment and management in preterm neonates. 30 May 2009
• Analgesia lost in transfer! 30 May 2009
• Pain management in the nursing home. 30 May 2009
• Understanding and managing burn pain: part 1. 30 Mar 2009
• [Monitoring of postoperative regional analgesia] 8 Mar 2009
• Pain assessment and management in surgical nursing: a literature review. 30 Jan 2009
• Exploring pain management in older people with hip fracture. 30 Dec 2008
• Response to a nursing-driven protocol for sedation and analgesia in a burn-trauma ICU. 30 Dec 2008
• A cancer pain primer. 29 Nov 2008
• Development of the Samuels Scale to rate pain management documentation. 29 Nov 2008
• "You just have to make the pain go away"--children's experiences of pain management. 29 Nov 2008
• Evaluation of musculoskeletal pain management practices in rural nursing homes compared with evidence-based criteria. 5 Nov 2008
• Post-operative pain: the impact of prescribing patterns on nurses' administration of analgesia. 29 Sep 2008
• Chronic pain: clinical features, assessment and treatment. 29 Sep 2008
• Pain management: evaluating the effectiveness of an educational programme for surgical nursing staff. 30 Jul 2008
• Training nursing students in evidence-based techniques for cognitive-behavioral pediatric pain management. 30 Jul 2008
• Spinal opioids in postoperative pain relief. 2: Adverse effects. 30 Jul 2008
• Knowledge and attitudes regarding pain management among nurses in Hong Kong medical units. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Analgesia'

Definition: Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.

Descriptor UI: D000698

Alternative terms: Analgesia; Analgesias;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E03.091;

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition